Microbiology Final Exam Questions Part 2
This flashcard set covers key concepts in microbiology, including universal features of prokaryotic cells and phases of bacterial growth. It’s useful for quick review before a final exam, emphasizing essential facts like the presence of ribosomes and characteristics of the log phase.
Both prokaryotes and eukaryotes use aerobic respiration as a way to produce ATP, but you get the (most/least) ATP from aerobic respiration in prokaryotes
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Both prokaryotes and eukaryotes use aerobic respiration as a way to produce ATP, but you get the (most/least) ATP from aerobic respiration in prokaryotes
Most
What is the final electron acceptor?
Oxygen
What are medically important fungi that exhibit dimorphism?
Yeast-like & filamentous fungi
What makes up the envelope of some viruses?
Phospholipids from the host cell membrane
Fungi that cause systemic mycoses lives where?
They live in the soil as saprophytes
What are the three stages of syphilis?
Primary stage - chancre sores
Secondary stage - rash on soles of feet and palms
Tertiary stage - gummas
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Both prokaryotes and eukaryotes use aerobic respiration as a way to produce ATP, but you get the (most/least) ATP from aerobic respiration in prokaryotes | Most |
What is the final electron acceptor? | Oxygen |
What are medically important fungi that exhibit dimorphism? | Yeast-like & filamentous fungi |
What makes up the envelope of some viruses? | Phospholipids from the host cell membrane |
Fungi that cause systemic mycoses lives where? | They live in the soil as saprophytes |
What are the three stages of syphilis? | Primary stage - chancre sores |
Which stages of syphilis are infective? | The primary and secondary stages |
Why is mycobacterium hard to treat? | Because it has a slow metabolic and growth rate |
Septicemia is also known as | Blood poisoning |
Bacteremia is ______________ in the blood | Bacteria |
Inflammation is stimulated by chemicals such as | Histamines and leukotrienes |
Plasma cells make | Antibodies & release them into the blood stream |
What is clonal selection? | The process by which B-cells are activated by an antigen |
Where do monocytes and macrophages bond to on an antibody? | The Fc region |
What activates the cell mediated response of the immune system? | Antigen presenting cells |
Transcription | DNA ------> RNA |
Translation | RNA ------> Protein |
What bacteria causes Tetanus? | Clostridium tetani |
What bacteria causes Strep? | Streptococcus pyogens |
What bacteria causes Lyme disease? | Borellia burgdorferi |
What bacteria causes Pneumococcal meningitis? | Streptococcus pnuemoniae |
What bacteria causes Tuberculosis? | Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
What bacteria causes Staphylococcal food poisoning? | Staphylococcus aureus |
What bacteria causes Salmonellosis? | Salmonella enterica |
What bacteria causes Syphilis? | Treponema pallidum |
First line of defense | skin, mucous membrane, secretions |
Second line of defense | white blood cells, antimicrobial protiens, and inflammatory response |
Third line of defense | lymphocytes & antibodies |
Alpha hemolysis | partial lysis; green halo |
Beta hemolysis | full lysis; clear halo |
DTaP vaccine | Diptheria, Tetanus, & Pertussis |
Tuberculosis vaccine | BCG |
Intoxication | illness in which bacterial toxins are ingested with food or water |
infection | illness in which live bacterial pathogens are ingested and grow in the body |
Malaria transmission | Anopheles mosquito |
Chicken pox(herpes simplex 3) goes latent where? | Ganglia |
Herpes 1 goes latent where? | Trigeminal |
pseadopods(eukaryotic membrane) | locomotion and engulfing phagoycytes(white blood cell) |
axial filaments (endoflagellum) | spirochete locomotion wrapping |
Flagella | locomotion in all 3 domains |
Reverse transcriptase | takes DNA back to RNA |
Chaga's disease(American- T. Cruzi) transmission | kissing bug-vector |
West Nile transmission | mosquito-vector |
Sleeping sickness(African- T. Bruci) transmission | teetse fly-vector |
What causes chicken pox(Varicella-zoster virus) | Human herpes virus 3 |
Luekocytes aka | White blood cells |
Vector is also another word for | Plasmid(DNA injection) |
Which of the following is NOT a contributing factor to the devolpment of disease by Clostridial species? | ENDOtoxin formation |